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Armenia's opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan holds a rally in Yerevan ahead of a key parliamentary vote to elect the country's new prime minister after veteran leader Serzh Sarkisian was ousted last week. IMAGES of Nikol Pashinyan leading the rally
President Paul Kagame holds his final rally ahead of the legislative and presidential elections next week. Long-time leader Kagame is widely expected to extend his iron grip on the Great Lakes nation. IMAGES
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado holds a rally ahead of the July 28 presidential election. Machado, who overwhelmingly won the opposition primary, was declared ineligible by a Maduro-aligned court. However, she refuses to step down despite being barred from public office for 15 years based on charges widely dismissed as spurious. IMAGES
President of the centre-right Social-Democratic Party Partido Social Democrata (PSD) since May 2022, Luis Montenegro holds his final rally ahead of the March 10 general election. The 51-year-old led its parliamentary group when it was in power from 2011 to 2015 and imposed severe austerity measures. Despite the far right's potential for depriving the PSD of a parliamentary majority, Luis Montenegro has insisted he will not accept entering into a coalition with Chega. IMAGES
Guatemalan center-left presidential candidate Sandra Torres, the ex-wife of deceased leftist former leftist president Alvaro Colom, attends her closing campaign rally ahead of the June 25 election. IMAGES